Avant Première Music + Media Market Berlin is the largest trade fair for performing arts in audiovisual media. Hosted by the IMZ International Music + Media Centre, it offers participants a front row seat to exclusive previews, cutting-edge information and priceless business contacts. www.avant-premiere.net Avant Première Music + Media Market Berlin is the largest trade fair for performing arts in audiovisual media. Hosted by the IMZ International Music + Media Cent...

 

  We hereby announce the following additions and changes to this year's Generation programme:   Panel Discussion:   “2040 - Telling New Stories About Our Future” Monday, February 11, 2019, 6 pm (doors open at 5.30 pm) Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin Free admission, event in English   On the occasion of the screening of the documentary 2040, which celebrates its world premiere at Generation, the Berlinale is hos...

 

    The 69th Berlin International Film Festival is again receiving support from its Principal Partners — L’Oréal Paris, ZDF, Glashütte Original and Audi — and its co-partners — Leysen1855 and Mastercard — as well some 30 other national and international enterprises.   “I would like to express my warmest gratitude to all the Official Partners of the Berlinale. Without the generous support and passionate commitment of our partner...

 

  Since it was launched in October 2004 on the initiative of the Berlinale and the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the World Cinema Fund (WCF) has supported cinema from countries and regions that have no film industry or one marked by crisis. By doing so, the Berlinale WCF has committed itself to bringing cultural diversity to cinemas. So far the WCF has provided funding for more than 209 successful projects and films.   The WCF supports all fictional and documentary cinema...

 

From 9 to 14 April, around 100 new and historical films, performances and discussions will be part of the programme at Dortmund | Cologne International Women's Film Festival 2019, which takes place this year in Dortmund. Dr Maxa Zoller, who took over as Artistic Director of the Festival in autumn 2018, presents this year's thematic programme entitled "Image traps: Illusi...

 

EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS, EFP's initiative to spotlight Europe's 10 best up-and-coming acting talent, is widely regarded as an important stepping stone towards an international career – with past EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS including Carey Mulligan, Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Pilou Asbaek and Alba Rohrwacher to name a few. Taking place over the first weekend of the Berlin International Film Festival, the initiative offers an extensive industry ...

 

Lucia Margarita Bauer © Max Dax. What do Hanna Schygulla and Albert Serra understand by vanity, what do they have to say about empathy? And will Aaron Schimberg and Horst Bredekamp get wise to their ideas? How does Nathan Silver's cinema relate to privilege and to the civil war in Syria? How can knowledge which has been misappropriated by colonial powers be depicted and discussed? All the guests of the Berlin Critics’ Week have been chosen and will soon sit down in front o...

 

By Alex Deleon for <filmfestivals.com>       The 69th edition of the Berlin Film Festival will be the last one under the auspices of director Dieter Kosslick, who has run the event since 2002 with a certain flamboyance and an occasional flub.  Inevitably seen in the company of the big Hollywood stars while sporting various floppy hats Kosslick has been accused of catering too much to the Hollywood mainstream at the expense of the festival's long established ...